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Nationalismus und Globalisierung : Spannungsfelder der Gegenwart
No full textDas Wiederaufleben des Nationalismus führt Gesellschaften in ein zunehmend angespanntes Verhältnis mit den Herausforderungen einer globalisierten Welt. Dieser Sammelband beinhaltet herausragende Beiträge Bamberger Studentinnen und Studenten zu dem Thema Nationalismus und Globalisierung. Das Thema bot die Möglichkeit, sowohl Nahes als auch Fernes in allen Facetten sozialwissenschaftlicher Theorien und Methoden zu beleuchten. Diese Vielfalt an Möglichkeiten wurde von unseren Autorinnen und Autoren genutzt: Der Bogen der Disziplinen lässt sich von der Erwachsenenbildung über die Politikwissenschaft bis hin zur Soziologie spannen. Auch die Bezüge erstrecken sich von lokalen über europäische bis hin zu globalen Blickwinkeln. Damit findet sich die Breite der studentischen Interessen in den studentischen Schriften zu den Sozialwissenschaften wieder.
Die erste Hälfte des Sammelbandes beinhaltet theoriegeleitete Ausarbeitungen zu einem möglichen Bildungskonzept zur Förderung von Nachhaltigkeit, der Entwicklung des Wohlfahrtsstaates, unter Bedingungen zunehmender technischer Möglichkeiten und der Frage nach der imperialen Qualität globaler Strukturen. Die zweite Hälfte liefert empiriebasierte Analysen zu der Rolle sozialer, ökonomischer und politischer Unsicherheit für die Bewertung der eigenen Nation in Europa, dem Einfluss von Religiosität auf Einstellungen zum Klimawandel und abschließend von Faktoren der Unterstützung einer zunehmenden europäischen Integration.
Der zweite Band der Reihe Studentische Schriften zu den Sozialwissenschaften setzt damit die erfolgreiche Geschichte des ersten Bandes fort, Studierenden der Sozialwissenschaften eine Plattform zu bieten, wissenschaftlich tätig zu werden und unter fachkundigem Coaching erste Erfahrungen mit dem Publikationsprozess zu sammeln.Societies are finding themselves increasingly more often caught up in tensions between a resurgence of nationalism on the one hand and the emergence of global challenges on the other side. This volume includes a selection of contributions from Bamberger students dealing with nationalism and globalisation. The chapters address various societal challenges (climate change, nationalism, welfare state), several scales (national, European, global) and come from different scientific disciplines (adult education, political science, sociology). As such, the contributions mirror the wide range of topics that are of interest to junior social scientists.
The first part of this volume contains three theory-driven investigations dealing with the evolution of welfare states in the context of technical innovations, an educational concept to promote sustainability and a new form of imperialism inherent in global structures. Part two encompasses three empirical studies analysing the influence of religion on concerns about climate change, the role of social, economic and political insecurity for the evaluation of the own nation and factors leading to support for further European integration.
The publications series Studentische Schriften zu den Sozialwissenschaften is dedicated to make outstanding student papers available to a broader readership. Moreover, it offers students the opportunity to gain experience with the scientific publication process
Organic matter content from sediment cores of coastal vegetated ecosystems in Colombia, Germany and Malaysia using stepwise loss on ignition
No full textThis dataset contains measurements of the top 50cm of sediment collected between 2021 and 2023 as part of the project sea4soCiety. Sampling took place in three locations each on the North Sea and Baltic Sea coast of Germany, the coasts of peninsular Malaysia and the Caribbean coast of Colombia. To quantify the storage capacity of blue carbon in coastal vegetated ecosystems (mangrove forests, saltmarsh, and seagrass meadows) and unvegetated marine sediments in each location and ecosystem five to nine 50 cm deep sediment cores were collected using a peat sampler (5.2 cm diameter, 50 cm length, Royal Eijkelkamp). Sediment cores were split visually according to visible physicochemical layers and each layer was thoroughly homogenized. Sub-samples for organic matter analyses were frozen at -20°C prior to freeze-drying. Freeze-dried material was pulverized with a ball mill (LLC Planetary Micro Mill PULVERISETTE 7 premium line, FRITSCH) at 500 rpm for 3 min. To determine the organic matter content (containing organic carbon) 3 g freeze-dried and pulverized sediment was stepwise combusted for 4h at 180°C, 300°C, 400°C and 500°C in a muffle oven (M110, Heraeus)
Pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment: β-blockers as a case study
No full textThis thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University, 20/09/2008.The presence of many human pharmaceuticals in the aquatic environment is now a worldwide concern and yet little is known of the chronic effects that these bioactive substances may be having on aquatic organisms. This study used mammalian pharmacodynamics to predict the mode of action of the 13-blocker, propranolol, on fish, in order to identify chronic effects in fathead minnows. β-blockers target β1- and β2-adrenergic receptors in humans and hence these receptors were characterised in the fathead minnow. It was found that fish possess β1- and β2-ARs that are structurally very similar to their mammalian counterparts. Further, the distributions of these two β-ARs in various organs of the fathead minnow were similar to those in mammals. Pair-breeding assays were conducted, in which fathead minnows were exposed to various concentrations of propranolol. To discover whether β-ARs had been up or down regulated by propranolol, molecular analysis was conducted on different tissues of the exposed fish using real-time polymerase-chain reactions (RT-PCR). Exposure of fathead minnows to propranolol caused acute toxicity at 10 mg/L. Propranolol caused a statistically significant decrease in reproduction at 1.0 mg/L, dose-related decreases in male weight, condition index and fatpad weight, and a dose-related increase in female GSI. Molecular analysis of βl- and β2-AR expression levels revealed a dose-related decrease in β2-AR expression in fathead liver and heart. LOEC and NOEC values were 0.1 mg/L and 0.01 mg/L, respectively. Propranolol plasma concentrations in fish exposed to water concentrations of 0.1 and 1.0 mg/L were greater than the human therapeutic concentration and hence these data very strongly support the fish plasma model proposed by Huggett et al. (2001).European Union (as part of the ERAPharm consortium
